In light of the shooting at a Florida high school on Wednesday, the North Platte Police Department and the North Platte Public School District issued a statement Friday, about the response if a school shooting happens in North Platte.

Before Wal-Mart, Safeway, Sixth Street, Sun Mart and other franchise grocery stores arrived in North Platte, residents bought their groceries at “Mom and Pop” neighborhood grocery stores that were all over town.

In a significant breakthrough that could hasten an eventual HIV cure, a research team at the University of Nebraska Medical Center has changed the chemical structure of an existing antiviral drug to facilitate it in reaching cells and tissues where HIV resides.

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As people wonder what to do with North Platte's abandoned Pawnee Hotel, we take a look at what happened to a similar hotel in Hastings. Also... how Jeff and Connie Brittan overcame the challenges of launching the Feather River Vineyard... the legislature considers driverless buses and medical marijuana... plus more.

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